The Assassin's Cloak - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841954594 ISBN 13: 9781841954592

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2003

Synopsis

With 170 contributors, a scope that is peerless, international and crosses centuries The Assassin's Cloak pays tribute to a fascinating genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms.

There are several diary excerpts for every day of the year beginning with Samuel Pepys and along the way we meet cads and charmers, sailors and psychopaths, rock stars and prima ballerinas, gossips, drunks, snobs, lechers and lovers. There is humour and tragedy, history and the humdrum, often recoded on the same day or in the same entry.

About this title

Book Description:

An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists

From the Back Cover:

'A wonderfully entertaining anthology of diaries'
Mail on Sunday

'The perfect bedtime book'
Evening Standard

'Here are the great, the good, the bad, the hubristic and the humble'
The Times

'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.' So wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. As a result, this wonderful collection of entries from the world's greatest diarists is as inspiring as it is enlightening.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1841954594
• ISBN 13: 9781841954592
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 720
• Editor: Taylor Alan, Taylor Irene